Questions tagged [partitioning]
When you create two or more logical volumes (drives) from one physical hard disk (or other storage device), you're working with partitions.
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How to Recreate EFI Partition?
System: Macbook Pro 2019 with Intel & T2, upgraded to Sonoma.
Objective: Dual boot with Fedora.
Trouble: I accidentally deleted the EFI System Partition on MacOS. Now, I do have EFI for T2Linux (...
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Manually resize WinRE partition (Windows 10 Home)
I would like to do the procedure outlined in Microsoft KB5028997.
I would like my WinRE to become 1G.
But I am not 100% sure I understand the instructions for that. Only 99%, so I would like to ...
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Repair Windows EFI system partition from linux live OS
As part of my project I am working on a ubuntu based live os that can be used as system rescue disk for linux as well as windows.
Basically it will be used as a rescue disk in case of boot failures.
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How to recreate hardware mirror RAID with bigger drives?
I had a RAID 1 mirrored array composed of 2 x 500GB HDDs connected to my Gigabyte Z590 motherboard.
I was running out of space, so I cloned one of the drives with Clonezilla to a 1TB drive.
On that ...
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Missing partition on disk utility for Mac. How to find it and revert it back to Mac?
A while back, I partitioned my Mac SSD, but never got around to installing an OS. Now when I go to disk utility, I cannot find the partition. Has anyone faced this before and what can I do?
There is ...
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How to reset the state of the system disk from a running Windows?
For test or administration purposes, it can sometimes be required to reset the state of the system disk so that it does not start and the data is not easily accessible anymore, for instance to test ...
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kpartx does not work as expected inside docker container
I am trying to create disk image inside docker container.
I run the following commands:
Run container with debian
$ sudo docker run --privileged --rm -it debian
Update apt and install packages
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Cannot Expand Datastore in ESXi 6.7 of a 4TB RAID1 Drive Configuration
I'm running ESXi 6.7 on a Dell R720 with 96GB of ram, and 2x 8-core processors. I have two 4TB drives configured in the BIOS as one disk, RAID 1.
I had a Linux VM that was utilizing about 75% of the ...
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Dual boot Windows 10 with Windows 10
On my hard drive, I have a partition which contains the factory-settings Windows 10 OS and the few files and programs it comes with. I created a partition using most of the spare space and cloned my ...
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Prevent programs from writing to a partition
I have a hard drive in one partition with important data on it.
I want to prevent programs from writing to it.
It would be nice, for example, if I could grant access to certain programs like a ...
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Disk cloning - How much data will it actually copy?
I am cloning a disk of size 500GB. Disk is not full of data. It has roughly 300GB data. How much actual data it will copy (how much read, and how much write specifically)? What if cloning utility ...
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How to correct "partitions not in recommended order" without erasing entire disk?
Most of the suggestions about "The partitions on the disk selected for installation are not in the recommended order." that I found on the internet and on this site, say 1. using diskpart to clean/ ...
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How can I recover lost partitions?
My primary SSD has its boot sector erased, thus all partitions are not recognized by the computer. I can't boot the operating system on it, and I am currently using a spare HDD with bad sectors, and ...
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Can't install Windows 10 on Samsung 850 EVO (250GB) SSD in Asus K75VM
I recently decided to revitalise my old Asus K75VM laptop (± 7years old now) by switching from the original (broken) HDD to a Samsung 850 EVO SSD, and I'm at a loss.
I've been trying to install ...
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Restore "Unknown" Partition To ntfs
I'm using Fedora.
I don't know why my NTFS (/dev/sda3) partition is changed to "Unknown". I can't read this partition. My important files are located in there and I have to change it back to ntfs ...
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GPT PMBR Size Mismatch will be corrected by w(rite)
Linux gives error "GPT PMBR size mismatch will be corrected by w(rite)."
The error message is far from self-explanatory. Does this mean that Linux will (attempt to) resize the GPT partition ...
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Why are SSDs less prone to file corruption caused by sudden shutdowns?
I lived 8 years with HDDs. Every time when there was a power outage, or for whatever reason I had to force-shutdown the computer by turning off the PSU or pushing that fancy-yet-dangerous restart ...
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Is there a simple way to move/copy a logical volume from one volume group to another? (LVM2)
I'm rearranging a bunch of disks on my server at home and I find myself in the position of wanting to move a bunch of LVM logical volumes to another volume group. Is there a simple way to do this? I ...
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Linux find/search root partition ONLY?
Say I need to do:
find / -name somefile.txt
and say root partition / is mounted on /dev/sda5; however, let's say I also have 250GB partitions (/dev/sda6, /dev/sda7) mounted in /media - AND another ...
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Is partition alignment to SSD erase block size pointless?
Many people seem to have the idea (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) that aligning the start of your SSD partitions at a multiple of the SSD erase block size is somehow benefitial. I do not see the benefit; consider the ...
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How to automatically do a ntfsfix every time at reboot? [duplicate]
On a dual-boot laptop I have a partition /dev/nvme0n1p4 which I want to mount as ntfs partition for Ubuntu 22.04 and Windows-10. But really often this partition only mounts as read-only. The entry in ...
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Can I shrink 25 GB Lenovo parition my laptop came with?
I have just bought a new lenovo yoga 720, with a 256 GB ssd. However, the main partition only has 212.23 GB of space allocated. There is a 25 GB partition called "Lenovo" which has about 1.5 GB of ...
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Default Windows 11 partitions / partitioning scheme
Sometimes you need to partition your disk which already contains a different operating system (OS) or version of Windows thus you use Linux tools such as fdisk or gdisk to create/configure partitions ...
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How to recover a RAID 5 after deleting the partition table and fstab?
I have a RAID5 set up for my storage drives on my Nixos 23.11 machine. I followed this guide to set up the RAID (and I followed it very closely).
I have just reinstalled Linux on my boot drive (...
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Default Windows 10 64 EFI partitions / partitioning scheme
Sometimes you need to partition your disk which already contains a different operating system (OS) or version of Windows thus you use Linux tools such as fdisk or gdisk to create/configure partitions ...
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How to boot from 3TB HDD?
I just bought a new HDD of 3TB (not yet shipped). I didn't know that size is normally not supported to use it to boot OS. I learned I need a computer that supports UEFI so that I can install windows ...
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Changed "partition type" to EFI GPT accidently when default WAS Intel using TESTDISK
So i was trying to recover a failing drive by doing some tests.
This drive was connected externally.
After some trial and errors - I decided to 'write changes' after going into the EFI GPT category ...
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"The operation is not supported by the object" when trying to delete any partition/volume
I'm trying to delete the recovery partition because it's in between two spaces I'm trying to merge - when I try to execute delete vol override or delete part override, this error shows:
The operation ...
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extending disk partition with other partitions in the way
I want to extend my C drive partition after upgrading it, but the 2 partitions have partitions in between them. I'm not sure how to extend it and the extend button is grayed out.
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Creating a bootable DMG or ISO for Mac OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion)
I have a 4.04GB DMG file for Mac OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion), which is being used for reinstalling the OS on my MacBook Pro.
However, the bootable USB needs a GPT (GUID-partition table) format. The ...
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Is it possible to manually set the Windows system partition during installation?
I just finished installing Windows 10 preview, build 10130. But I wanted it to use its own system partition. Instead, it detected my other Windows installations and reconfigured the system partition ...
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boot.ini, boot from primary partitions after extended partition
Is there a (Win NT) rule that MBR primary partitions must come before extended partitions?
Active partition is on rdisk(0)
I've got a secondary drive with 4/5 partitions (depending on how you count it)...
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what is this dedup takes most of hard active active time and size too
This deduplication process consumes a significant portion of both active time and storage space. I've already updated Windows and done everything I can. Any suggestions?
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CLI tools commands used by GParted and KDE Partition Manager under the hood
GParted and KDE Partition Manager use libparted for some tasks, but they use other command-line tools under the hood.
I want to reproduce a complex set of operations done with GParted or KDE Partition ...
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fsck_exfat: Could not update main boot region: Bad file descriptor - Mac OS X - external hard drive
My external hard drive (seagate barracuda with good SMART status insidev erbatim 4TB store 'n' go) has 3 main partitions:
1) ntfs
2) hfs+ for time machine backup
3) exfat to transfer files between ...
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Increasing size of Time Machine storage partition
I have a 500GB hard drive attached to my iMac. When it was first attached a friend partitioned it equally for storage and backup (Time Machine). Now the backup part is full but the storage is hardly ...
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Using diskpart for unallocated space during windows 10 installation
I'm a newbee and excuse my bad english. Here is my stituation.
The hard drive was 2 partitions and i deleted primary (system) one. Now its seem as unallocated space. I read the following answer of the ...
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How to permanently delete a LUKS encrypted partition?
I have been using a LUKS encrypted partition as my /home directory on Manjaro. However, as I have to resize and move a few of my disk partitions, I would like to get rid of it. On Manjaro, I have ...
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Moving Windows system reserved partition
I just installed the Windows as a dual boot. I've decided I want to expand my Windows partition, but in between the Windows partition, which I want to make bigger, and my Linux partition, which I want ...
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Converting Linux partition to crypto_LUKS
I'm currently working on RHEL 8.9 and attempting to harden a VM of mine, and looking into applying the crypto_LUKS encryption to my active partitions. When I check my partitions using the blkid ...
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Deleting Recovery Partition - What will happen?
I need to free up as much space as possible on my hdd. I have the following partitions seen below:
disk management pic
The 5th partition in particular is called:
13.96 GB
Healthy (Recovery Partition)....
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Windows system partition has 450 GB free but cannot be shrunk [duplicate]
I have bought a laptop with a 1 TB bitlocker encrypted drive and Windows 10 installed. I want o reduce the Windows C partition from under 1TB to ~200 GB. I was able to reduce it by ca 476 GB. Now it ...
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How does RAID 5 handle unrecoverable sectors on a HDD
I'm going to set up a RAID 5 on 4 hard drives on my ubuntu system. I plan to use ext4 on a logic volume.
Suppose one disk reports an unrecoverable sector. How would RAID 5 handle this? My ...
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How to disable CHKDSK permanently, windows 10/11
I want to completely and permanently disable CHKDSK on windows 10 and 11, reason is a long story but as a summary: I work with complex custom builds having multiple SOs(mostly Linux) and 2 NTFSs ...
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Kali linux goes black screen after login
I am running it on virtualbox
recently I've run out of memory (litteraly 0 bytes left)
so I have resized the vdi file but I can't enter into linux to set the partitions
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unable to install GRUB in dummy
I am trying dual boot kali linux with windows 8.1 .The linux installation was going smoothly until it reached the step where it needed to install Grub.
I don't know if it's of any importance but my ...
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Hard drive won't work after deleting whole partitions
I was trying to install Ubuntu server to my external SSD via a bootable USB flash drive. After deleting whole partitions in the disk I changed my decision to boot Ubuntu and cancelled the installation....
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Windows 7 doesn't recognize second partition on removable disk
I created two partitions on my removable Flash drive, but Windows doesn't recognize the second partition.
Both partitions are NTFS and primary partitions.
And this image is in disk management on ...
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virtual box create vmdk of a partition creates a vmdk of entire harddrive
I am attempting to create a VMDK of my Windows Partition (Win 10 x64 Pro - insider preview) on disk /dev/sda, where my Windows partition is /dev/sda1.
Virtual Box has the option of creating a vmdk ...
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Linux (xcp-ng) installation has around 40GB of MS basic file system
So, I am having this trouble to get rid of these 3 partition that my Lenovo Thinkcenter keep creating when I install XCP-NG.
fdisk -l output:
So, basically I tried to remove those by fdisk /dev/...
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